Norton System Works

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I've seen and agreed with the many comments about the Norton
software, so often, that I think I owe it to the group to
tell about my latest experience. I lived through 2005 with
a Live Update error message for most of the year, and gave
up on getting rid of the error message.......they furnished
Knowledge Base instructions that took a dozen pages to print
out and never got rid of it.

But I got Norton System Works 2006 Premier Edition, after
Thanksgiving, absolutely free (after rebates), and I
completely uninstalled the old and installed the new, almost
cleanly. It complained about not being able to install
"Go Back" on a partitioned drive, and I had to kill it and
start over, but then it went surprisingly smoothly. Much to
my surprise. Maybe they have learned some lessons, but it
was the first time I had anything good to say about a
Symantec installation in a long time.
 
I've seen and agreed with the many comments about the Norton
software, so often, that I think I owe it to the group to
tell about my latest experience. I lived through 2005 with
a Live Update error message for most of the year, and gave
up on getting rid of the error message.......they furnished
Knowledge Base instructions that took a dozen pages to print
out and never got rid of it.

But I got Norton System Works 2006 Premier Edition, after
Thanksgiving, absolutely free (after rebates), and I
completely uninstalled the old and installed the new, almost
cleanly. It complained about not being able to install
"Go Back" on a partitioned drive, and I had to kill it and
start over, but then it went surprisingly smoothly. Much to
my surprise. Maybe they have learned some lessons, but it
was the first time I had anything good to say about a
Symantec installation in a long time.
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Ahhh....glutton for punishment eh? :-)

gls858
 
Why would you want to use a resource hog like systemworks? Good luck, and
watch over your shoulder,the symantec monster is obviously out of the box!!!
lol :)
 
I've seen and agreed with the many comments about the Norton
software, so often, that I think I owe it to the group to
tell about my latest experience. I lived through 2005 with
a Live Update error message for most of the year, and gave
up on getting rid of the error message.......they furnished
Knowledge Base instructions that took a dozen pages to print
out and never got rid of it.

But I got Norton System Works 2006 Premier Edition, after
Thanksgiving, absolutely free (after rebates), and I
completely uninstalled the old and installed the new, almost
cleanly. It complained about not being able to install
"Go Back" on a partitioned drive, and I had to kill it and
start over, but then it went surprisingly smoothly. Much to
my surprise. Maybe they have learned some lessons, but it
was the first time I had anything good to say about a
Symantec installation in a long time.
Click to expand...

Translation: I had nothing but trouble with the old edition, so of course, I
bought the new one. Sheesh.
 
Never again...not for me. After using Norton for many years the 2005 upgrade
drove me nuts (especially the Live Update fiasco krap) and eventually I
decided to remove it from my machines...which took all freeking day to get
every trace of Norton/Symantec/Winfax off two machines. Both machines now
run sooooo much better.


| I've seen and agreed with the many comments about the Norton
| software, so often, that I think I owe it to the group to
| tell about my latest experience. I lived through 2005 with
| a Live Update error message for most of the year, and gave
| up on getting rid of the error message.......they furnished
| Knowledge Base instructions that took a dozen pages to print
| out and never got rid of it.
|
| But I got Norton System Works 2006 Premier Edition, after
| Thanksgiving, absolutely free (after rebates), and I
| completely uninstalled the old and installed the new, almost
| cleanly. It complained about not being able to install
| "Go Back" on a partitioned drive, and I had to kill it and
| start over, but then it went surprisingly smoothly. Much to
| my surprise. Maybe they have learned some lessons, but it
| was the first time I had anything good to say about a
| Symantec installation in a long time.
| --
| William B. Lurie
 
I have had Norton System Works with all their yearly program updates for
the past 5 years. Currently am running NSW2005 and have been with no
problems. You mentioned Norton GoBack. That most likely is your culprit
causing most, if not all of your problems.

Uninstall it completely, if you can, and I think you probably will resolve
your NSW2005 problems. You have no requirement for GoBack, as you have XP
System Restore. Had GoBack one time and all it caused was problems. Your
best bet is uninstall everything associated with NSW2005, including GoBack
and Live Update, and reinstall NSW2005 only.
 
ColTom2 said:
I have had Norton System Works with all their yearly program updates for
the past 5 years. Currently am running NSW2005 and have been with no
problems. You mentioned Norton GoBack. That most likely is your culprit
causing most, if not all of your problems.

Uninstall it completely, if you can, and I think you probably will
resolve your NSW2005 problems. You have no requirement for GoBack, as you
have XP System Restore. Had GoBack one time and all it caused was
problems. Your best bet is uninstall everything associated with NSW2005,
including GoBack and Live Update, and reinstall NSW2005 only.
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No -----GoBack was the only part of NSW 2005 which worked OK. It is quite
different from System Restore
Eric Booth
 
Ive used Noton Antivirus for years and its always been fine. I used to use
Systemworks but stopped a number of years ago when I realised all registry
editing apps caused more problems than they solved. Anyway I was given
systemworks 2006 recently and have installed Antivirus 2006 and Ghost and
they are both fine. Ghost 2003 was another program I used a lot and its
always been fine, I had used Acronis True image but had seen corruption in
some of the images which were down to acronis. Obviously peoples experiences
are going to be different.

Glen P
 
You made two basic mistakes.

Firstly: you had installed NSW2005.

Secondly: You didn't learn your lesson and installed NSW 2006.

I suggest you check to what Symantec took out of NSW 2006 that was in NSW
2005.

Good luck anyway.

Regards,
 
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